Ongo bosses have reassured residents their homes are safe after a serial burglar with 139 previous convictions repeatedly targeted vulnerable residents at the same sheltered housing area and “conned” an 82-year-old pensioner.

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Daly and his accomplice had used the pensioner’s wheelchair to take the TV away and had even taken his bed sheet. The TV was not recovered. Daly had convictions for 139 previous offences, 98 of them for theft and similar offences but also burglary.

Judge Mark Bury said that Daly had previously burgled homes in Lincoln Court in 2011 and 2015 and had been jailed for spells of 42 months and 40 months. He had also targeted sheltered accommodation for burglary in 2009.

Daly was jailed for five years.

Grimsby Crown Court.

Lisa Fleming, head of PR at Ongo - the social landlord which manages Lincoln Court, said: "We are appalled at this crime. Daly clearly preyed on residents knowing that their vulnerability might make them easy targets.